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Robert R. Cargill, Ph.D ROBERT R. CARGILL, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENTS OF CLASSICS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES 210 JEFFERSON BUILDING • THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA • IOWA CITY, IA 52242–1418 319.335.1996 • [email protected] • WWW.BOBCARGILL.COM • @XKV8R EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles, CA Dissertation: “The Qumran Digital Model: An Argument for Archaeological Reconstruction in Virtual Reality” (William Schniedewind, Advisor) 2006 M.A. Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations University of California, Los Angeles, CA 2000 M.Div., M.S. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 1996 B.S. Human Physiology / Pre-Med California State University, Fresno, CA 1993 A.A. Fresno City College, CA PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS April 2019 – present Assoc. Professor of Classics and Religious Studies University of Iowa Aug 2011 – April 2019 Asst. Professor of Classics and Religious Studies University of Iowa Jan 2018 – present Editor Biblical Archaeology Review June 2018 – June 2019 Visiting Professor University of Maryland Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 Associate Editor Biblical Archaeology Review Sept 2010 – Aug 2011 Adjunct Assistant Professor UCLA Jun 2009 – Jul 2009 Visiting Professor Portland State University Jan 2009 – Jun 2009 Adjunct Professor Azusa Pacific University Aug 2001 – Jul 2005 Adjunct Professor Pepperdine University PUBLICATIONS Books 2019 Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (New York: Oxford University Press). 2018 聖書の成り立ちを語る都市: フェニキアからローマまで (Cities Telling the Origins of the Bible: From Phoenicia to Rome), Japanese translation of The Cities that Built the Bible, trans. by 真田由美子 (Yumiko Sanada) for 白水社 (Hakusuisha Publishing Co). 2017 创造圣经的城市 (The City that Created the Bible), Simplified Chinese translation of The Cities that Built the Bible, trans. by 吴炜声 (Wu Haosheng) for 海南出版社 (Hainan Publishing House). 2016 創造聖經的城市：尋訪舊城、古卷與文明遺產的宗教考古之旅 (The City of Biblical Creation: A Religious Archaeological Tour to the Old City, Ancient Scrolls, and Civilized Heritage) Traditional Chinese translation of The Cities that Built the Bible, trans. by 吳煒聲 (Wu Haosheng) for 遠足文化 (Hiking Culture Publishers). 2016 The Cities that Built the Bible (San Francisco: HarperOne). 2009 Qumran through (Real) Time: A Virtual Reconstruction of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bible In Technology 1; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press). Chapters in Edited Volumes 2016 “Biblical Archaeology: Its Rise, Fall, and Rebirth as a Legitimate Science,” Chap. 10 in Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World’s Largest Religion, ed. by John W. Loftus (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2016). Refereed Articles .Aramaic Studies 10 (2): 173–191 ”, כש ל ל The Rule of Creative Completion: Neofiti’s Use of“ 2012 2011 “The State of the Archaeological Debate at Qumran,” Currents in Biblical Research 10 (1): 101–18. 2010 “The Benefit of Blogging for Archaeology,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 39 (3): 12–16. 2009 “The Qumran Digital Model: An Argument for Archaeological Reconstruction in Virtual Reality” and “A Response to Magness,” Near Eastern Archaeology 72 (1): 28–47. Essays and Op-Eds ROBERT R. CARGILL, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES | THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 2019 “Surrendering to bigotry at the Wesley Center”, Iowa City Press-Citizen, May 18, 2019. https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2019/05/17/surrendering- bigotry-wesley-center/3702147002/ 2018 “Was Pontius Pilate’s Ring Discovered at Herodium?”, Bible History Daily, Dec. 4, 2018. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/pontius-pilate-ring-herodium/ 2018 “On Being a Friend to Israel”, Times of Israel, July 8, 2018. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-i-got- over-myself-and-become-a-true-friend-to-israel/ 2018 “Why We Do Not Support the ‘Bible Literacy’ Bill in Iowa”, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Jan. 26, 2018. http://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/guest-editorials/2018/01/26/why-we-do-not- support-bible-literacy-bill-iowa/1070659001/ 2017 “UI Classics Professor Deserves Support During Online Attacks”, Iowa City Press-Citizen, June 22, 2017. https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/2017/06/22/ui-classics-professor-deserves-support-during- online-attacks/419512001/ 2017 “Did Archaeologists Really Discover a New Dead Sea Scroll Cave?”, Bible History Daily, Feb. 20, 2017. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/new-dead-sea-scroll-cave/ 2014 “Summary of ‘Bible Secrets Revealed, Episode 4: The Real Jesus’”, Bible History Daily, Jan. 4, 2014. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-secrets-revealed-episode-4-“the-real-jesus”/ 2013 “Summary of ‘Bible Secrets Revealed, Episode 1: Lost in Translation’”, Bible History Daily, December 19, 2013, http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-secrets-revealed-episode-1-lost- in-translation/ 2013 “Summary of ‘Bible Secrets Revealed, Episode 3: The Forbidden Scriptures’”, Bible History Daily, December 5, 2013. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/bible-secrets-revealed-episode-3-the- forbidden-scriptures/ 2013 “Summary of ‘Bible Secrets Revealed, Episode 2: The Promised Land’”, Bible History Daily, November 13, 2013. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-secrets-revealed-episode-2-the- promised-land/ 2013 “Iowa View: 1 man, 1 woman isn’t the Bible’s only marriage view,” The Des Moines Register, (co- authored with Hector Avalos and Kenneth Atkinson), June 2, 2013. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130603/OPINION01/306030016/Iowa-View-1-man-1- woman-isn-t-Bible-s-only-marriage-view 2011 “A Critique of Simcha Jacobovici’s Secrets of Christianity: Nails of the Cross,” The Bible and Interpretation, May 2011. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/simcha358005.shtml 2010 “On the Virtue of Doubt: A Brief Autobiography of the Skeptic in the Sanctuary,” JasonBoyett.com, September 2010. http://blog.beliefnet.com/omeoflittlefaith/2010/09/robert-cargill-skeptic-sanctuary.html 2010 “How and Why Academic Peer-Review is About to Change,” The Bible and Interpretation, August 2010. http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/cargillp357931.shtml 2010 “On the Misuse of Archaeology for Evangelistic Purposes,” The Bible and Interpretation, June 2010. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/misuse357930.shtml 2010 “The “Camera Friendly” Scholar: Essentials of Giving Great TV Interviews,” 8-12 in Academics and the Media: Four Perspectives (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010). 2010 “Forget about Noah’s Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood,” The Bible and Interpretation, May 2010. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/flood357903.shtml 2009 “On False Accusations of Anti-Semitism within the Academy,” The Bible and Interpretation, December 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/false3141515.shtml 2009 “Why Christians Should Adopt the BCE/CE Dating System,” The Bible and Interpretation, September 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/why_3530.shtml 2009 “Pseudo-Science and Sensationalist Archaeology: An Exposé of Jimmy Barfield and the Copper Scroll Project,” The Bible and Interpretation, August 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/cargill2_08261.shtml 2009 “On the Curious Protests of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition in Toronto,” The Bible and Interpretation, August 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/curious.shtml 2009 “On the Insignificance and the Abuse of the Copper Scroll,” The Bible and Interpretation, July 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/copper.shtml 2009 “The Fortress at Qumran: A History of Interpretation,” The Bible and Interpretation, May 2009. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/qumfort.shtml 2 ROBERT R. CARGILL, PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES | THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Consultant 2018 Essential Bible Reference (Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Washington, DC: National Geographic). 2016 Archaeology of the Bible (Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Washington, DC: National Geographic). 2014 1,000 Facts about the Bible (Washington, DC: National Geographic). Video 2015 “A Deluge of Flood Stories: Flood Mythology, the Bible, and Aronofsky’s Noah,” in The Genesis of Things, Scholars Speak 3, (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society). 2007 Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour. Produced, wrote, and directed film commissioned by the San Diego Natural History Museum’s for their exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, June 29 – December 31, 2007. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND PERFORMANCES Refereed/Peer-Reviewed Presentations 2018 “From Your Birth to Your Youths: Masoretic Pointing as Anti-Christian Polemic in Psalm 110:3”— Presented in the “Masoretic Studies” section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 18, 2018. 2018 “If It Quacks Like an Article...: Public Scholarship in the Digital Age”—Presented in the “Archaeology of the Biblical World” section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 18, 2018. in Gen. 14:18,”—Presented in the “Textual Criticism of לש ם to םדס Melki-Ṣedeq, King of Sodom: From“ 2017 the Hebrew Bible” section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 19, 2017. 2017 “Introduction to the State of Scholarship, Archaeology, and New Media,”—Presented in the “Scholarship, Archaeology, and New Media” section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 19, 2017. 2014 “Swapping
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